Zmorge: A German Morphological Lexicon Extracted from Wiktionary
Rico Sennrich, Beat Kunz · 2014
We describe a method to automatically extract a German lexicon from Wiktionary that is compatible with the finite-state morphological grammar SMOR.The main advantage of the resulting lexicon over existing lexica for SMOR is that it is open and permissively licensed.A recall-oriented evaluation shows that a morphological analyser built with our lexicon has comparable coverage compared to existing lexica, and continues to improve as Wiktionary grows.We also describe modifications to the SMOR grammar that result in a more conventional lemmatisation of words.